Educate Girls

Educate Girls
Founded2007
FounderSafeena Husain
TypeNon-profit
FocusGirls’ Education
Location
Area served
Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, India
MethodPartnership with the Government and communities to improve access to primary education for children.
Key people
Safeena Husain
Volunteers13,000+
Websitewww.educategirls.ngo

Educate Girls is a non-profit organization in India, established in 2007, founded by Safeena Husain, that works towards girls' education in India's rural and educationally backward areas by mobilising communities.

It currently operates in over 13,000 villages in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. By leveraging the Government's existing investment in schools and by engaging with a huge base of community volunteers, Educate Girls helps to identify, enrol and retain out-of-school girls and to improve foundational skills in literacy and numeracy for all children (both girls and boys). Since its inception in 2007, the organization has reached over 6.7 million total beneficiaries, and has helped mobilise communities to enrol close to 380,000 out-of-school girls in school.